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It's surprisingly hard (to me, anyway) to find solid danceable Louis Armstrong stuff -- a lot of his available recordings are either too early or too "pop" for lindy. There are a few tunes on Ella and Louis and Ella and Louis Again that work (They Can't Take That Away, Let's Call the Whole...

Except perhaps for Ornette Coleman and his followers, that is absolutely and completely not true. The "categories" to which you refer manifests the music theories behind every song out there. There are different paradigm music theories for jazz, blues, rock, etc., and sub-theories within ...

I don't have much knowledge of this non-genre of music so can someone recommend their ten or so favorite "groove" cds that I should look for?

so far on the other thread people have mentioned Gene Harris and Ramsey Lewis... what cds by them? and who else...?

thanks!
-yakov.

sorry to go back into debate mode, but there's one here i just couldn't take -- Damon wrote: "Is there some confusion about what bop is and how it differs from hard bop? What rock and roll is and how it differs from heavy metal? What Funk is and how it differs from hip-hop?" Answer: Yes, o...

i love all the tunes from COUNT PLAYS DUKE, a new CD from Grover Mitchell's Count Basie Orchestra. All new arrangements, great tempi, gorgeous playing, and of course the audio fidelity is top-notch.

wow, that sounds great! so i could finally figure out his early, confusing-ass career...

THE DUKE ELLINGTON READER!!!! columbia university press. not a bio, it's a collection of articles. and it's AWESOME. articles of all kinds from magazines of the time. there's one great one that follows him on a tour and he tells stories on the train. and musicological stuff. all kinds of articles. t...

by the way, there doesn't seem to be a place to say this, but: this forum rules. just on my first day reading all the first-page threads on "music" and "skillz," i learned so much from the accumulated knowledge here. Love and power to all. I dj'd last night (for the third time ev...

i don't know if hip hop lindy is illegal now, but what i like is... gorillaz/"clint eastwood" ???/"whatta man" (this was fun at Detroit LX) guru/"plenty" (of course) snoop dogg/"gin and juice" (not for the family crowd) HA HA HA shim-sham to "jiggy"....

well, i didn't actually see it, but my friend was raving about it.

one late Slim album I heard in the store recently was "Siboney," which was a "latin-tinged" album mostly of songs I never heard of.

i tried a few... my favorite is the java "beatmeter." it has a thingy that blinks across the screen like a metronome. the longer you tap the stabler it is. you if you know html you can hack around and download it... http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~gremlin/beat.html

I was able to get my start DJing only because of BPM charts. Without that it's just way too hard to remember how fast stuff is when flipping through a book. Of course there's more than that to DJing, but who says instinct and BPM lists are mutually exclusive? I also write down other info on the card...

I heard disc one of the Slim Proper Box in the shop the other day, and it's fabulous. Something else to look for: I heard that there's a movie "Absolute Beginners" that features Slim Gaillard performing a song called "Sellin' Out" or something. The guy told me it was an awesome c...